808 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. (VoL. XXXII. 
of all within the limits of Kansas is indicated to the eye by the use 
of reduced maps, and for a number of species the range within the 
limits of the United States is shown in the same manner, so far as it 
was known. 
The plants of the southeastern United States figured in Smith and 
Abbots “usects of Georgia, a century ago, form the subject of a 
synonymic note by Britten in Zhe Journal of Botany for August. 
The collection, preparation, and shipment of exotic drugs forms 
the subject of a paper by Professor Planchon in a recent number of 
the Bulletin de la Société Languedocienne de Géographie. 
As a result of several years’ study, Burgerstein concludes that most 
of the pomaceous genera are separable by anatomical characters 
derivable from their secondary wood. His paper on the subject? 
includes a series of analytical keys based on the more reliable 
characters. 
An interesting popular article by James Epps, Jr., on the cacao 
plant and its utilization, illustrated by a number of half-tone plates, 
appears in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Croyden Microscopi- 
cal and Natural History Club for 1897, recently issued. 
The Onagracez of Kansas form the subject of a paper by Prof. A. 
S. Hitchcock in a recent number of Ze Monde des Plantes. Thirty- 
six species are enumerated, and for each is given a small map showing 
its distribution in the United States, and another indicating the 
counties of Kansas from which it has been reported. 
The genus Bartonia is increased by Dr. Robinson, in the Botanical 
Gazette for July, by the addition of B. iodandra, a new species from 
Newfoundland, first collected in 1894 by Robinson and Schrenk, and 
more recently found some 200 miles from the original locality by 
Waghorne. 
The eighth part of Professor Engler’s “ Beitrage zur Kenntnis der 
Arace,” in Heft 3 of the Botanische Jahrbücher for the current year, 
consists in a revision of the genus Anthurium, in which a goodly 
number of species are described for the first time. 
In his twelfth annual report as botanist of the Nebraska State 
Board of Agriculture, distributed in July as a reprint from the 
Annual Report of the Board for 1897, Professor Bessey gives a brief 
definition of the botanical regions of that state, as understood by 
Pound and Clements in their Phytogeography of Nebraska, and dis- 
1 “eho Alfred. Xylotomisch-systematische Studien iiber die Gattungen 
er Poma lel aaron des k. k. zweiten Staatsgymnasiums im II. Gemein- 
debezirke in ye hay 1898. Wien, 1898. 
